No Brass Band

Lyrics

[Verse 1] The train whistle blew for Coal Road Crossin' In a few more minutes, we'll pull into town I'll have to face the folks who'll come to meet us I'll try to keep the tears from falling down [Verse 2] It won't be the way we always had it pictured The day me and Daddy went away He told 'em we'll come back so rich and famous And you'll have a big brass band all set to play [Chorus] But there'll be no brass band at the station There'll be no smiles and no celebration For daddy, there'll just be a black hearse waiting And no brass band at the station [Verse 3] We left two years ago come next September The letters I wrote were full of lies For me and Daddy never hit the big time We got our meals down in a welfare line [Verse 4] Daddy met up with some men who planned a robbery They said with daddy's brains, he'd go real far But he never got beyond the first Colt bullet Now Daddy's in a pine box in the baggage car [Chorus] But there'll be no brass band at the station There'll be no smiles and no celebration For daddy, there'll just be a black hearse waiting And no brass band at the station